DRILL 1 Flashcards
How does Shelley regard the west wind in
the following ode?
From Ode to the West Wind
Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill:
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and Preserver; hear, oh, hear!
It can both wipe out and maintain life.
How does the speaker picture God in the
following sermon?
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as
one holds a spider; or some loathsome insect, over
the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his
wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon
you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into
the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you
in his sight; you are ten thousand times more
abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful
venomous serpent is in ours.
incensed
Paradise Lost is considered among the
greatest epics in English. Which of the following was the basis for this epic poem?
sinning of Adam and Eve
What does the speaker mean in the
following lines?
“Let’s so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live ever”
From To My Dear and Loving Husband
Let’s be true to our love, and we will be
joined in eternity.
Which of the following is NOT an example of
Gothic literature?
Lord of the Rings
According to the speaker in Sanburg’s
“Chicago,” how would most others describe the
city?
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for
I have seen your painted women under the gas
lamps luring the farm boys.
Immoral
What does the speaker like about Chicago
as shown in the following lines?
Come and show me another city with lifted head
singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong
and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job
on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against
the little soft cities;
Its vitality
Who are the summer soldier and the
sunshine patriot Paine alluded to in The Crisis?
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The
summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in
this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;
but he that stands it now, deserves the love and
thanks of man and woman.
The cowards who love their country less
What does that the speaker lament over in
the following lines?
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any
other name would smell as sweet”. - (Romeo and
Juliet Act II, Scene II)
Their names keep Romeo and Juliet apart.
Which of the following is an example of
novel of the soil?
The Good Earth
What does the speaker celebrate in “The
Soul Selects her own Society”?
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the
door;
On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
life and freedom
What do the following lines reveal about the
world?
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women
merely players. They have their exits and their
entrances; And one man in his time plays many
parts” - (As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII)
People have different roles to play in life.
What truth about humans do the following
lines from A Noiseless Patient Spider reveal?
And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of
space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,–seeking
the spheres, to connect them;
Till the bridge you will need, be form’d–till the
ductile anchor hold; Till the gossamer thread you
fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
People search for their meaning
Which of the following is the resounding
theme of contemporary stories like Hemingway’s A
Clean and Well Lighted Place and Anderson’s
Hands?
alienation from the society
Who is alluded to as the Captain in the
following lines from Whitman’s poem?
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we
sought is won.
Abraham Lincoln
In the passage, which of the following best
describes the speaker’s attitude toward the very
rich?
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are
different from you and me. They possess and enjoy
early, and it does something to them, makes them
soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are
trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it
is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in
their hearts, that they are better than we are
because we had to discover the compensations and
refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter
deep into our world or sink below us, they still
think that they are better than we are. They are
different.
He finds them so different from the rest of
society
What is the tone of the speaker in the
previous passage?
Sarcastic
What do the novels of Bronte, Eliot, Gaskell
and Dickens reveal about fiction produced during
the Victorian period in English Literature?
They closely represent the real social life of
the times.
What do the last two lines from Freneau’s
The Wild Honeysuckle reveal about life?
From morning suns and evening dews At first thy
little being came;
If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die
you are the same; The space between is but an
hour, The frail duration of flower.
Life is short
What do the following lines from
Wordsworth’s Psalm of Life reveal about heroes
and heroism?
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our
lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Anybody can be a hero
